Wed get up before sun-up to get the work done up

Wed work in the fields till the sun had gone down

Weve stood and weve cried as we have bristly watched

A hailstorm a beatin our crops to the ground

Weve gone to bed hungry many nights in the past

In the good old days when times were bad

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No amount of money could buy from me

The memories that I have of then

No amount of money could pay me

To go back and live through it again



Ive seen daddys hands break open and bleed

And Ive seen him work till hes stiff as a board

An Ive seen mommalayin in suffer and sickness

In need of a doctor we couldnt afford

Anything at all was more than we had

In the good old days when times were bad



Weve got up before and found ice on the floor

Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall

And I couldnt enjoy then, havin a boyfriend

I had nothing decent to wear at all

So I long for a love that I never had

In the good old days when times were bad



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In the good old days when times were bad

In the good old days when times were bad